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Dementias Platform UK - Participants wanted for most in-depth study of early Alzheimer’s disease

Researchers in Oxford are seeking local volunteers to take part in the world’s most detailed study into Alzheimer’s disease. Announced last month, the Deep and Frequent Phenotyping (…
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Bicycle Therapeutics Expands Neuroscience Collaborations to Include Oxford University’s Oxford Drug Discovery Institute

CAMBRIDGE, England & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Bicycle Therapeutics plc (NASDAQ: BCYC), a biotechnology company pioneering a new and differentiated class of therapeutics based on…
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UK SPINE Brings Industry, Academics, and Clinicians Together to Discuss Healthy Ageing

On 9th October 2019 UK SPINE hosted its first industry engagement event in the impressive surroundings of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. Co-hosted with Oxford’s Business…
Aeovian Pharmaceuticals

Aeovian Pharmaceuticals Raises $37 Million Series A Financing

Aeovian Pharmaceuticals, a company developing innovative therapies for the treatment of rare and age-related diseases, today announced the close of a $37 million Series A financing co…
KQ Labs

KQ Labs to support ten new start-ups

KQ Labs, an accelerator programme at the Crick to support start-ups working at the interface between biomedical and data science, is now open for applications for a second year…
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Two million Britons are taking seven different prescription drugs

Two million pensioners are taking at least seven types of prescription drugs - putting them at risk of potentially lethal side-effects, a major report warns. Age UK said the rise…

Ageing: Science, Technology and Healthy Living - Lords Committee launches a new inquiry

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee launches an inquiry into Ageing: Science, Technology and Healthy Living...
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Drug Discovery Unit partners with Bukwang Pharmaceutical Company to tackle new drug treatment for Parkinson’s disease

The University of Dundee‘s Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) has announced a multi-million-pound partnership with Korean-based Bukwang Pharmaceutical Company in a bid to develop a new drug…
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CoEN 2019 call for proposals: Pathfinder 4

This Pathfinder call sets out to encourage the community to think “outside the box”, to stimulate new and unconventional approaches and creative solutions to the challenges of…
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The KE Awards 2019

The KE Awards are a new initiative organised by PraxisAuril, the UK’s world-leading professional association for Knowledge Exchange (KE) practitioners, to celebrate the contribution…